Civil Year

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or year:

“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)